ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Wednesday there was
no threat of a pandemic from bird flu, as World Health
Organization experts visited the country's northwest which
reported the first human death from the virus.

Pakistani authorities confirmed at the weekend eight human
bird flu cases, including the one death, that the WHO said were
likely a combination of infections from poultry and limited
person to person transmission due to close contact.

"There is no threat of epidemic or pandemic and there are
no fresh cases being reported," Ministry of Health spokesman
Orya Maqbool Jan Abbasi told Reuters. The last human case was
reported on November 23.

"I think we are safe, but we are very cautions and have
taken all the precautionary measures."